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ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA - Advertiser Photos OCTOBER 2, 2025: University student Kevin Hua gives study advice to year 12 students as they head into exams. Picture: Emma Brasier

How to ace your exams – year 12 academic stars’ secrets of success

Students who excelled with stellar ATARs in the class of 2024 have given this year’s cohort their advice on how to dominate the year 12 exams.

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1/10/25. Year 12 Exams - How parents can best support their teens as they complete their year 12 exams. Yr 12 CBC student Travis Cappelluti -17yrs with mum Alison.Picture: Keryn Stevens

Don’t say this! The biggest traps for parents at year 12 exam time

Year 12 exams are about to throw families into turmoil – and many parents are even more anxious than their teens. Here’s how to maintain family harmony and help your kids succeed.

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Preschool little girl in sleeping bag camping. Outdoors activity with children in summer. Fun and adventure camp, family and friends vacations or weekend trip. Portrait of child with flashlight

Susie O’Brien: Watch out for this item on school camp lists

My son’s camp list contained an item that made me nostalgic for the time when we used paper dictionaries, street directories and cameras with film. How do we explain these items to our teched-up Gen Z offspring?

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‘No excuse’: Minister meets with tech giants in countdown to ban

Australia’s unprecedented social media crackdown has tech giants scrambling to ban under-16s before the December deadline.

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Health Minister Mark Butler launched the Thriving Kids program amid dire projections of a blowout in NDIS costs.

‘Anxious and outraged’: Parents panic at looming NDIS overhaul

A major disability support group says parents are raising “major red flags” about the rollout of Thriving Kids, Labor’s cost-saving plan to shift many young children off the NDIS.

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‘200 classmates had seen him naked’: Sexting crimes rampant in schools

An eSafety educator shares horrifying stories of sextortion and revenge porn as new data reveals many perpetrators of image-based sex abuse are themselves children.

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SUNDAY ESCAPE. BABYMOONS. SARAH NICHOLSON. Picture: iStock

Soft-porn pregnancies and other parenting trends to avoid right now

Who needs B-listers with F-cups in G-strings looking sexy while breastfeeding? Here are the parenting trends to avoid, says Susie O’Brien

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School uniforms need to stop dictating how girls and boys look

The Gender Equity CEO is calling for school uniforms to be updated to allow unisex options and freedom of expression for kids on skirt length, hair rules and jewellery.

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Leelou safety app creator Jerry Farsoun (R) and John Herron (L), Ambassador and advocate for the app, and father of the late Courtney Herron, who was murdered in May, 2019 in Melbourne. Photo by Luis Enrique Ascui, CopyrighytsÃ‚Â©luisascui

Triple-0 bungle: Why calls can fail and what Aussies can do

After three deaths were linked to the Optus outage, experts warn Triple-0 isn’t foolproof — here’s why calls can fail, what to do in an emergency, and the new Aussie app that could help save lives.

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Controversy has erupted around the Netflix cartoon Dead End Paranormal Park after billionaire Elon Musk expressed outrage that character Barney Guttman, right, said they were transgender.

Musk joins push to cancel Netflix over cartoon’s trans character

Elon Musk has told his 227 million followers on X to cancel Netflix – causing its share price to sharply drop – amid a revolt over a ‘pro-transgender’ kids’ cartoon.

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Should parents watch horrifying Netflix viral hit with their teens?

A new Netflix show about a high school couple tormented by an anonymous bully has become an international sensation. But do experts think it’s too disturbing for kids?

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DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 12, 2022. Cherrybrook Technology High School year 12 students at the end of their English exam on the first day of the HSC for 2022. Picture: Jonathan Ng

HSC students reveal which exams they want to move online

The majority of Year 12 students want to ditch traditional pen and paper exams, new research has revealed, as NSW’s examiners prepare for the HSC’s first ever computer-based coding exams.

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Daniel Bachi is an Auslan teacher at NSW TAFE. Picture: Supplied

Sign me up: Australia’s fastest-growing new language isn’t verbal

Auslan sign language is emerging as one of the most popular new language options in primary schools – but we’re running out of teachers despite TAFE enrolments soaring.

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Brock Sawtell, Maryline Medard and daughter Ella Sawtell from Cairns enjoying free activities in a Darwin playground these school holidays. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Parents’ staggering spend on school holidays fun revealed

Aussie families are spending more than a billion dollars a week on school holidays activities as the cost of keeping kids entertained skyrockets.

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